A call for EU citizens living in Cambridge to be allowed to stay after Brexit has received unanimous backing from councillors.

Cllr Martin Smart delivered a motion at a full council meeting at Cambridge City Council on Thursday (February 23), calling for all EU nationals resident in Cambridge to be allowed to remain after Brexit.

Cambridge dad standing in solidarity with his EU national wife

Cllr Smart said: “The matter that this motion concerns has a direct consequence for 9000 of our residents. In a small city the size of Cambridge that is no small amount.

"So there are 9000 Non-UK EU nationals living in Cambridge. These people have the right to vote in city and county elections so they can and have voted for us to represent them.

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“In simple terms the offer on the table is that if you are a non-UK EU national you will have to leave and go home. But where is home? Some of these people have lived here for decades. This is their home.